Database of Members

[Ontraxguy]

I have not yet purchased the program. I would like to be able to limit the use of vBulletin to those who have paid dues to my group. Dues are do on a certain date of the year, but come in throughout the year. I do not wish to have vBulletin keep track of when dues are paid, I do that through another database.

Is it possible to upload a csv file of those who are to have access to vBulletin? So, if today I have 500 people who are current, and the next day I get anoter 50 who pay dues, can I just upload a complet file of 550 to vBulliten and they all have access?

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Reeve of shinra]

Impex allows you to import users via a csv file. I imagine that you could import them into a custom user group specifically for paid users.

When you recieve a payment, you could manually add a user to that usergroup going forward. Some admins have set it up so that a validation code can be entered into a custom profile field which automatically add them to the correct usergroup. There is a mod here for that last part.

I think (I am not sure) that you can also set up a cron job to automatically remove users after a certain date. I know you can remove them after being in that group for a x days / months / years.

The best option, might be to use vbulletin's payment system. It will keep track of a lot of that info you but I guess it depends on your own needs and what your existing db ties into today.